Day 19 [3/30/10]

Today in class, Denise had us get into groups of four and assign ourselves a role from Webquest: The Efficiency Expert, The Affiliator, The Altitudinist, and the Technophile. I chose to search the websites as The Affiliator. As we went through the websites that were available to us on this site, we thuoght in the mindset of the role we had to play. The Affiliator's mindset was to view the websites in a way of learning is better when in groups. Thinking in this mindset of the role I played, I felt that the most efficient one for working in groups was the Unraveling the Underground Railroad. This was because it uses a group of four individuals to literally play a certain role from the slavery times. This way, I feel, is very groups learning efficient. The ISTE-Nets student standard that I feel goes well with this activity is 4c. (4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making c. collect and analyze data to identify solutions and/or make informed decisions. ) This is because they aer using their critical thinking to make a decision on which lesson to use.